"Captain America" is Not Delayed

Remington's Cinema blog is claiming that "The First Avenger: Captain America" has been pushed back after director Joe Johnston's "The Wolfman" remake underperformed in theaters. The site speculates that the delay indicates a change in directors.

As much as most of you wish this was the case, it turns out that there is no truth to this rumor. SuperheroHype has confirmed with Marvel that the film is still on track and there is no plan to replace Johnston.

At this point, we are waiting to find out who will play the lead role in the film, which is scheduled to hit theaters on July 22nd, 2011.

I enjoyed Wolfman. It wasn't the original, but it had its moments.
I have a soft spot in my heart for the old Universal monsters, so my opinion may be biased.
If Johnson can do this movie right, and the box office receipts are good (fingers crossed), it should keep Avengers in the green light.
I realize I'm as bad as most anyone about blaming a director for the success or failure of a film ("Bryan Singer totally screwed Superman Returns"), but to be honest, I think SOME blame should also be leveled at the scriptwriters who wrote a crappy script and the "studio execs" who okayed the script for filming.
If I'm wrong, someone please enlighten me.

He has a few half decent movies under his belt, Honey I Shrunk the Kids, Hidalgo... Jurassic Park 3? OK, maybe not great but after Wolfman flopped maybe he will be on a personal mission to redeem himself.

@SofaKing - I like your optimism (seriously). Honey, I shrunk the Kids - WAS a huge hit (with kids, and their parents that got dragged to it). Admittedly, I haven't seen Hidalgo to offer up an opinion. Jurassic III while watchable (dinosaurs are always watchable... they and Nazi's) - but it was seriously, seriously beating a dead dog franchise already with that one. I mean, talk about Sam Neill whoring himself to crank out commercial sh*t for a paycheck!

But CA is pretty serious sh*t. It's THE hub to The Avengers. Weak hub and bringing in Iron Man for the first time without Favreau, and if Thor is good... this weak hub could send all of Marvel's intended 9 movie CA plan go down faster than Lohan after 6 tequila shots!

And with The Wolfman flopping (even considering it's cast) - this too has me nervous.

Plus all the elements the script is throwing into this origin story - The Invaders too?! So now we need Prince Namor and others to appear in this just to drown out the origin story? Maybe they're saving Prince Namor to appear in our present time as well. If not... they don't need he or the other Invaders in that movie.

If it turns out great... no one will be happier than I. And I wish I had your optimism.

Ranger, check out Hidalgo. I thought it was pretty good. Then again, I didn't have high expectations for it, so when I saw it I got hit with the wow factor right off the bat, just because I didn't think it was awful.